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Old 12-30-2010, 06:17 PM   #905
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Originally Posted by itimpi View Post
That almost certainly means that the PDF in question is an image based PDF with a small amount of (badly) OCR'ed text behind the images. Calibre has converted the OCR'ed text and discarded the images.

If this is the case then you are almost certainly better off not trying to convert the PDF file and load the PDF unaltered onto the reader device.

The alternative is find better source material.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Likely the two PDF's are really image files with words on the images. You will need to OCR them.

Dale
thanks you two, i ended up just downloading another copy of it and converting that, the new ones worked fine!
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